Probing the effectiveness: chiral perturbation theory calculations of low-energy reactions on the deuteron

Abstract

I provide a brief, and therefore necessarily biased, review of the application of effective field theory to electromagnetic processes on the deuteron. Electron-deuteron scattering is discussed for virtual photon momenta up to 700 MeV, and photon-deuteron scattering is examined for incident photon energies of order the pion mass.

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, uses espcrc1.sty and epsfig.sty. Contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Quark Nuclear Physics